Job Posting – Background Image Designer

Help Beautify Obsidian Portal

One of my favorite parts of the Reforge redesign is the ability to choose a nice high-resolution background image for your campaign. You can change the tone of your game from high fantasy to space opera to gritty urban streets just by selecting an image.

However, we need more images! Our current background image library is too small and we need help expanding it to add more images and give people a variety to choose from. To that end, we need someone with an eye for imagery and color and the ability to put together an image / color scheme combo that will make peoples’ campaigns look awesome.

Job Description

Find high-resolution background images that represent a variety of genres, games, settings, and systems. I was thinking of using stock imagery sites like Shutterstock, but if you have a better idea, I’d love to hear it.

Finding the images is only the first step, however. In addition, you’ll need to adjust them to make a good background image. Maybe that means blurring the lines a bit or adding a filter, or perhaps cropping the image to make it fit the site layout better.

Finally, with each image, we need a default set of colors to suggest to users. We want each image to have an accompanying color scheme so text, divider lines, and all the other non-imagery pieces of the site fit together with the background image.

Qualifications

Your own computer and all the tools you need – Photoshop, Illustrator, and any other image manipulation required.

5-10 hours per week to work on it. Work on your own schedule, fit it in when you have time.

Applying

Send a (short) resume to biz@obsidianportal.com and make sure to include links to web content that you have designed – a blog, your Obsidian Portal campaign, your deviantART profile, or anything else you’ve personally designed.

Along with your resume, explain how you would approach the task of getting new background images for Obsidian Portal and generating the color schemes. Remember that it’s a long-term goal and we want to have many backgrounds, so focus on how you could make it a repeatable process.

Misc

This is a paid, part-time 1099 contractor position

2 comments:

Hopefully you’re able to see my email address because I’d like to correspond with you about details pertaining to this position. I feel I would be able to help you immensely but would want to know certain details before I apply.

Regardless of who you hire, I would suggest that you offer the opportunity for those of us who are artists (and already in the community) to submit our artwork under a non-exclusive, irrevocable license. You would get free* artwork, and in exchange we could get a small bit of publicity for our galleries. (I am assuming that clear attribution would be part and parcel of the agreement, and would include a link back to the artist’s gallery.)

Obsidian Portal is the award winning Online Campaign Management System for tabletop role-playing games. It’s free to use, it can be accessed from any web browser and it's built from the ground up for gamers by gamers.

We host a huge community of tabletop RPG players who are all looking to get the most out of their tabletop gaming experience. You play your campaign and we help you manage it. It’s that simple.